Quinte Mohawk Builders Club

The Quinte Mohawk Builders Club at the Mohawk Reserve in Deseronto, Ontario is quite the incredible club in the Eastern Canada District. I'm not even exaggerating! Chartered in 2008, this 20+ group of young volunteers have done some pretty amazing projects and they are listed below:

-In the fall of 2008, they began the Angel Tree Project to raise funds to buy Christmas gifts for the 60 or so children who would not get gifts at Christmas. They started by collecting Canadian Tire Money (coupons provided when purchases are made) and soon were being provided with cash donations which in the first year totaled $1,700. In the four Christmas seasons since June 2008, they have collected a total of $4,700 for this enterprise.

-When a local family was burned out, the children purchased clothing and books for the child of the family.

-They raised funds by holding school dances, having popcorn sales and making scarves to build a school in Kenya through a program called Free the Children. In three years, they raised $4,100 by holding spaghetti dinners. They have now reached their goal of $8,500 for this project. They have 27 students signed up to travel to Kenya in July of 2014 to witness and assist with the construction of the school they have funded. You can imagine this is expensive. The cost per student is $4,700. Wow!!!

-They sold school clothing and provided staff luncheons.

-One of their classmates was diagnosed this past year with leukemia. Her name was Paula. The children purchased a Teddy Bear which occupies her chair in the classroom. Each day one of the children communicates the day’s activities to Paula by e-mail. (Sadly to say, Paula has since succumbed to her illness.) 

-They donated $500 to the Haiti Relief Fund. 

-They have provided $3,600 worth of books to another native school in a remote Canadian community less fortunate. When the principal of Henry Coaster Memorial School got this news he was without words.

-The club has annually donated money to UNICEF to assist with its many world wide projects.

As you can tell, Builders Clubs are just as capable as us to raise hundreds and thousands of dollars for different causes around the world. I'm not sure about you, but I am THOROUGHLY impressed by what this Builders Club has accomplished in the past three and a half years! Try contacting your local Builders Clubs to see what kind of projects they're doing. You might be surprised.